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History Flashcards

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Define archaeology

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Study of past cultures and analyzing human remains settlements,fossils,and artifacts

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What does pre history mean

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Before recorded

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Paleolithic era characteristics

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Hunter gathers
Developed clans
Cave art
Intro to stone tools

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Neolithic era characteristics

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Developed agriculture 
Made pottery 
Developed weaving 
Domesticated animals 
Oral language 
Written language
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Four river vallys

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Nile
Mesopotamia
India
Huang He

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What’s another name for the cradle of civilization

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Fertile Crescent

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Who was Hammurabi

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Babylonian king

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Advancements of the harappan cities

two cities

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Baths
Arithmetic
Trade
Written language

Harappa
Mohenjo Daro

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Two rivers that influenced Indus River valley

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Indus and Ganges

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What civilization did the Aryan’s invade and what geographic place did they use

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India

Khyper pass

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What religion used the caste system

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Hinduism

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Who built the Great Wall of china

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Han dynasty

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Who were Darius Cyrus and Cambyses

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Famous military leaders

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What was the royal road used for

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A path used to safely send messages to other emperors and for emperors to safely travel to other places

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How did geography influence Greece

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It has to split into provinces

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Who was homer and what was the difference between the llidad and the odyssey

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Homer was a blind poet
Illidad was about the Trojan war
Odyssey was the journey home

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Democracy in Athens

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Draco started first law
Solon outlawed slavery
Cleisthenes started it

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Who were Romulus and Remus

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Twin brothers raised by a she wolf

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Difference between a republic and an empire

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An empire is a huge city in which a republic type government can be the type of law

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Patricians

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The 10% of the population that is wealthy

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Plebeians

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Farmers labored and merchants only have 2 representatives

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Apollo

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God of sun light music

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Julius Caesar

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Famous military leader
Wealthy landowner
Pompey general

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Triumvirate

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A group of 3 men holding power together
Julius Caesar Pompey and Crassus
Antony Lepidus and Octavian

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Augustus Caesar

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Julius Caesars adopted son

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Octavian

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Emperor of Rome in 27bc

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Pax Romana

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Roman peace

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Tiberius gracchus

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One of men trying for social reform

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Gaius gracchus

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One of men trying for social reform

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Crassus

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Member of 1st triumvirate

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Pompey

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Member of 1st triumvirate

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Gaul

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A native or inhabitant of ancient Gaul

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Mark Antony

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Involved with Coleoptera

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Marcus Lepidus

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Political figure

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Cleopatra

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Involved with mark Antony

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Juno

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Goddess of love and marriage

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Apollo

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God of sun prophecy music

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Diana

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Goddess if wild animals and the hunt

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Minerva

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Goddess of poetry medicine wisdom

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Venus

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Goddess of love beauty and fertility

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Jupiter

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King if gods

God of sky and thunder

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Colosseum

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A large theater or stadium

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Aqueduct

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An artificial channel for conveying water

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Pantheon

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A building to honor the dead or people being burried

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Roman baths

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A building filled with complex rooms designed for bagging and socializing

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Ptolemy

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Green astronomer and mathematician

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Aeneid

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Latin epic by Vergil

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